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14th May 2014 –The Official Nintendo Online
Store will host a pop-up shop at
MCM London Comic Con this year. Nintendo fans will be able get their hands on
official goodies and merchandise, as well as lots of other
exciting
cool stuff, at MCM London
Comic Con from Friday 23
rd May until Sunday 25
th May, at EXCEL London, Royal Victoria Docks.

Items available to buy across the weekend at MCM London Comic
Con are exclusive to the Official
Nintendo Online Store and include Nintendo
t-shirts, such as a Mario men’s and women’s t-shirts,
Bullet Bill and Flower Power t-shirts, posters, bags, games,
console bundles, game guides, console accessories such as the
Mario and Luigi wheel for the Wii U and you can pre-order Mario
Kart 8 for Wii U. Guests can take advantage of exclusive items
including the 27” Ganondorf figure from The Legend of Zelda
series, 14” Zero Suit Samus figure from the Metroid series,
22” Tanooki Mario figure from the Super Mario franchise and
8-bit pixel Mario and Luigi cases.

As well as being able to get hold of exclusive items from the
Official Nintendo Online store, guests will also be able to play
Mario Kart 8, a week before
the official launch date in the UK.

To get Nintendo fans in the mood for the launch of Mario Kart 8,
guests can take part in exclusive mini tournaments – being
held only at MCM London Comic Con - across the weekend, with the
chance to be crowned the best racer! Mario Kart enthusiasts will
also be able to pre-order
Mario Red or
Luigi Green Mario Kart 8 Wii
U bundles, to receive a free special L cup trophy, from Mario Kart
7, only available when they pre-order at MCM London Comic Con.

If you already own a Nintendo 3DS XL, Nintendo 3DS or Nintendo
2DS then make sure you bring your console along to MCM London Comic
Con as you will not only be able to increase your StreetPass hits
and help complete your achievements but also swap friend codes with
other Nintendo fans.

The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive
entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures
and markets hardware and software for its Wii U™ and
Wii™ home consoles, Nintendo 3DS™ and Nintendo
DS™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched
the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more
than 4.2 billion video games and more than 670 million hardware
units globally, including the current-generation Wii U, Wii,
Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi
XL™, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance™,
Super NES™, Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™
systems. It has also created industry icons that have become
well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey
Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and
Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of
Europe, based in Grossostheim, Germany, was established in 1990 and
serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in Europe.